British writer and actor born in 1966, Mark Gatiss is a
Darlington man best known for three things:
Gatiss is a long-time big
Doctor Who fan, to put it mildly; he has written for seven of the Doctors, wrote and acted in three official approved spoofs and contributed to seven
Big Finish Doctor Who audios. Topping all of that though are his writing credits for the television show proper; "
The Unquiet Dead" for Nine, "
The Idiot's Lantern" for Ten and "
Victory of the Daleks", "
Night Terrors", "
Cold War" and "
The Crimson Horror" for Eleven.
He provided an uncredited voice for a space spitfire pilot in "Victory of the Daleks" and "
A Good Man Goes to War", as well as other roles in "
The Lazarus Experiment" and "
The Wedding of River Song" (the latter under a pseudonym and heavy prosthetics), making him the
only person to write
and appear in the
Doctor Who TV series no less than four times.
And as if that wasn't enough, he's also the first person to play
both the Doctor (in "The Web of Caves", a comedy spoof) and the Master (in
"Sympathy for the Devil", a
Big Finish What If? audio).
He appeared in a
live version of
The Quatermass Experiment in 2005 with
David Tennant. During a break in rehearsals, Tennant whispered to him that he was the new Doctor that Gatiss would write "The Idiot's Lantern" for.
Will also be appearing in the fifth series of
Horrible Histories, along with fellow
League of Gentlemen stars Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton.
He is also one of the two creators of
Sherlock, and plays the character of
Mycroft Holmes.
Outside of television, he's the author of a series of
Two Fisted Tales-style detective novels, starring
Loveable Rogue spy Lucifer Box. It's been described as "
Sherlock Holmes meets Flashman in
the Temple of Doom".
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